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Andrew Leonard of Salon.com yesterday released his review of "Crash of the Titans" highlighting how the book is more about what drove executives at Merrill Lynch to continue " … merrily speculating in mortgage-backed securities constructed out of the dregs of the dregs" than it is about the government's role in the financial meltdown. Leonard [...]

Author, Greg Farrell

GREG FARRELL is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Merrill Lynch had paid out its 2008 bonuses a month ahead of schedule, in December, even though Merrill was in the process of losing $28 billion for the year, and Bank of America needed an extra $20 billion in taxpayer funds to complete its acquisition of the firm. That story sparked an investigation by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo. Greg is a past winner of the American Business Press’s Jesse Neal Award for investigative reporting and a recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship for business journalism. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.